Gotcha. This person had a stupendously high bail, since 1st degree assault is a felony. Essentially, she owes her bondsman a luxury sedan. That sucks. Y'all cleared things up a lot. Thanks B.L.A.M. and emilys and carl agatha.
― how's life, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 13:55 (ten years ago) link
Hilarious story: we had to bail out a friend arrested in GA and the bondsman wouldn't bail him out unless we had somebody local to sign for him so we paid a crackhead* $100 to say he'd gone to college with our friend and sign the bond on his behalf. Later the friend** skipped out on his court date. :/
*I am not using that term casually.**I am using the term "friend" casually.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 13:57 (ten years ago) link
The look on the bondsman's face when the local dude said he was our friend's college buddy was pretty much the definition of skepticism.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
GA is an arrest-y state
― emilys., Tuesday, 24 September 2013 14:08 (ten years ago) link
a good, quick intro to bail and bail funds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5w75eGTnag
one thought i have afterward is how much bail money is in the system, at any given point? would it be possible to create a revolving bail fund that was large enough, and had enough liquidity, to cover everyone in the country? that seems like it would be a rather large amount of money, but it also seems like there are quite a few people with even larger amounts of money.
but it must not be so simple, because otherwise wouldn't some billionaire just single-handedly fund the revolving bail fund? if i understand the idea correctly, the fund wouldn't need to grow every year - it just needs to be large enough to work as a revolving fund for all the active cases. or not?
― idkwtf (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
Illinois just became the first state to end cash bail.
“Pretrial Fairness Act,” which ends cash bail among other things, passes the House on a vote of 60 to 50Win for the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus, though it seemed dicey there for a minute as 59 votes held. Members and staff embrace after passage. pic.twitter.com/gr1NO3DSRY— Hannah Meisel (@hannahmeisel) January 13, 2021
― jaymc, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 17:59 (three years ago) link